“A Business of Flies”

The Tony Kornheiser Show

This Show Stinks Productions, LLC

Sports, News

4.8 • 10.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Tony opens the show by talking about an issue he has with the new format for the Washington Post App, and also about having a vertigo attack over the weekend and how he’s dealing with a fly infestation in his house. Michael Wilbon calls in to talk about the big games in the NFL and college from the weekend, Tim Kurkjian calls in to talk about what a great season Cal Raleigh is having and whether he should be the MVP over Aaron Judge, and whether Kyle Schwarber will beat out Ohtani for the NL MVP, and Tony closes out the show by opening up the Mailbag. Songs : Ryan Jewel “Drinkin’ Town” ; “Barrel Full of Whiskey” To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Tony. On today's show, we'll talk to Michael Wilbon about a rough weekend for his wildcats and bears,
0:04.6	and we'll check in with Tim Kirchin as we enter the final couple of weeks of the baseball season.
0:08.2	But first, commerce.
0:13.1	Previously on the Tony Kornheiser show.
0:17.0	Jason's very excited today and can't be because of his physical feeling because he's had a shingle shot. Oh, yeah. And it has laid him low. Jason, I had two shingle shots. A second one was worse than the first. The second one, my left arm blew up. It literally blew up. But it sounds like you're not in good shape from this, huh? It's rough. I feel like my core temperature is like, I don't know, maybe 27 degrees.
0:39.4	Like, I'm in a hoodie sweatpants and thermal pants right now.
0:42.9	Like, I slept that way.
0:47.3	The Tony Cornizer show is on now.
0:50.6	One of the great appearances of all time.
0:52.3	Absolutely.
0:52.9	One of the great appearances of all. We Absolutely. One of the great appearances of balls.
0:54.2	We may have a few emails on that.
0:55.6	Jason on, you know, vaccines at that point. I have a few things to talk about. I'll dispense with the Nats early. Saturday, Sunday, I didn't watch a play. Didn't even know they were on. And I wasn't going to watch. I was going to watch football if there was football. I gave the early start yesterday. Come on.
1:10.3	Yeah, I didn't watch. I was unaware of all of that, so we don't have to talk about that. Did they play the Marlins again? I don't think so. They finished their 12-game series with the Marlins last week. I went to play golf yesterday. I had a really, really good time. I did something that you're not advised to do. I went out as a two-sum behind three-fours. So you're going to be held up.
1:34.3	Where you play Sunday is now a tea time day that you can make in advance.
1:38.2	Yeah. And Michael got me on the tea sheet with Paul McNamara, who is my age and who was the president of Columbia, and who was a very
1:47.1	outgoing good guy. I really, I'd not spent this much time with him ever, and I loved everything about
1:54.6	it, and I played pretty well. Oh, that's great. All right, so that was fun. I had a good time doing that.
1:58.6	I need to talk about something about the Washington Post.
2:01.5	This affects everyone. The Washington Post in the last 48 hours has changed. This is the online
2:08.8	version, the online version, has changed the menu, the way the menu is delivered to you.
2:14.7	The sports section, which is what I care about most, the sports section and all
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